Marietta carnesi (Howard)

Suh, Soo-Jung, 2018, Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reared from Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (Cooley) (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in the Republic of Korea, Insecta Mundi 612, pp. 1-6 : 3

4. Marietta carnesi (Howard) ( Fig. 3 )

Diagnosis. Body yellow to silvery white; forewing with hyaline cells or infuscated patterns, without hyaline cells along margin and apex; antenna six-segmented (1,1,2,2), scape slender, about 6.0× as long as broad; midlobe of mesoscutum with 14 to 16 setae; gasteral dorsum infuscate brown with sides from base to apex silvery white and a narrow dark brown cross-band on tergum I to V extending to silvery sides, a dark spot on each of silvery sides; legs whitish to pale yellow, with dark brown complete or incomplete bands, tarsi five-segmented.

Material examined. Korea. GG: 476 Dongtanjiseong-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, 4 females, ex. P. cockerelli on T. cuspidata , 11-vii-2014 (S.J. Suh) . CN: 260 Unkyo-ri, Dupo-myeon, Asan-si, 2 males, ex. P. cockerelli on T. cuspidata , 3-vii-2016 (S.J. Suh) . JJ: 72 Sumokwon-gil, Jeju-si, 1 female, ex. P. cockerelli on T. cuspidata , 1-xi-2017 (S.J. Suh) .

Remarks. This species is a hyperparasitoid.

Figures

Figures 1–6. Six species of parasitoids associated with Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (Cooley) in Korea. 1) Aphytis japonicus DeBach and Azim, male. 2) Encarsia berlesei (Howard), female. 3) Marietta carnesi (Howard), female. 4) Pteroptrix sp. 2, male. 5) Arrhenophagus chionaspidis Aurivillius, female. 6) Chartocerus subaenus (Förster), female.